Design and Evaluation of Support Functions of Course Management Systems for Assessing Learning Conditions in Programming Practicums

Course Management Systems efficiently provide a variety of information about a class, and also serve to cultivate communication between the instructor and students, as well as between the students themselves. These systems are beginning to be effectively utilized in classes with large numbers of students, such as programming practicums at universities. The present research designs and proposes support functions for assessing learning conditions, which aim to assess learning conditions (such as the problems of individual students) without circulating through the classroom, reduce the burden on instructors through providing accurate support, and improving the quality of instruction. Carrying out experiments in actual classes, we evaluate in terms of instruction methods through these support functions, and instruction content with regards to conditions that can only be assessed through the functions, and then verify their effectiveness.